Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taylor's territory is the borderland of Kentucky and Tennessee before, during, and immediately after the Depression. In these 16 stories, his themes are love, marriage, childhood. As he peels away the layers of the past, he finds in an early-morning walk to a drugstore or a family dinner implications of lives changed, misdirected, or ruined. In What You Hear from 'Em?, Aunt Muncie, the Negro housekeeper, retains a measure of dignity only as long as she can believe that the two white boys she raised for a widowed doctor will come back home to live...
...company of four muscular Quakers, he was taken for a brisk walk during which he was encouraged to admire the beauties of nature and enjoy the song of the lark.... He was not allowed any literature that might be considered inflammatory, he was given the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress and Uncle Tom's Cabin.... He was allowed no tobacco, no alcohol, and no red pepper. Cocoa he might have at any hour of the day or night, since the most eminent of his guardians were purveyors of that innocent beverage...
...hockey Rangers. Maggie Smith sits with opera glasses in her Silver Spring, Md., apartment, spots sparrows, cardinals and titmice flitting among ten feeding stations and birdhouses. She sets out raisins, notes that "the mockingbird always takes two, four, never an odd number." Henry Cabot Lodge likes to walk in the Saigon zoo. With surprising delight, he tells how he once strolled too close to a tiger cage and the big cat sprayed him with urine. "The Vietnamese," he says, "tell me it's great good luck to have something like that happen...
...city. Nelson and Sara Frank and their four children have ten main rooms and four baths, plus four porches. "You have to be sort of handy with things like a plasterer's trowel," says Sara Frank. "But it's so centrally located that you can walk a block to the public library and get a book on plumbing...
When Richard Burton was eight years old, his mother paraded him up to a pastry shop window. As he admired the delicacies inside, she ordered him to walk on, remarking piously, "It is so good for little children to restrain themselves." Enraged, Burton smashed the glass, clawed out a tray of apple puffs, and ran. It was 1829. A lifelong battle between the unrestrainable appetites of Richard Francis Burton* and the tastes of Victorian England had been joined...